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... Thompson 5. Epileptic by David B. 6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee* 7. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides* 8. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides* 9. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell* 10. Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts These are all books that stayed ...

I read The Virgin Suicides and Perfume: Story of a Murderer over the past two days, and now I'm actually going to try my hardest not to start anything new until Tuesday night, once I'm done with final exams and on my way back to my family for the holidays. I have absolutely no self-c ...

Adding: 62. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides I can't say I was satisfied by this--the novel is narrated by people who have no conclusive insights into the motives/inner lives of the titular "virgins," so the story is very open-ended and speculative--but I did enjoy ...

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Modern: ideas-The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Virgin Suicides 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Ah, ha! You had the exact same reaction to Slaughterhouse that I did to Rapture. Here's what you said after my review of Rapture: It never occurred to me that anyone could find it worth reading, but not be particularly fond of it. We had the same reaction, although I do think I ...

... karenmarie. Rockinrhombus wouldn't recommend The Road to anyone but you would. And I wouldn't hesitate to recommend The Virgin Suicides to anyone - I thought it was the most beautiful (if tragic) book, and the perfect example of how really great writing can be absorbing and easy to read. ...

... story of Ninah. The one book I can think of offhand that I would never recommend to anybody under any circumstances is The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides. Charles, it looks like I need to re-read Slaughterhouse Five. It's in the parlour, on shelf 33. Off I go to fetch it.

... your "Books Turned into a Movie" categories are some of my favorites. 8. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. 9. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides If you end up enjoying both of these books, these authors have also written some other great novels. Jeffrey Eugenides in ...

... tember. I finished 5 books in 3 categories - finishing 1 category and coming to within 1 book of finishing another. 1. The Virgin Suicides from Made into a Movie (finishing the category!) 2. Stardust from Page 14 of my Catalog 3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nigh ...

... by Arthur Golden* 7. Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies 8. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. 9. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

... by Lucy Knisley 7. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 8. The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu 9. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Yes, I know that I said I wasn't impressed with this when I read it, but ...

>2 I'll second The Virgin Suicides - I would have considered that book nearly un-adaptable between the collective narrator and the near-courtroomish presentation of evidence. I think she did the absolute best presentation that could be done. About a Boy is one of my favorite Hornby ...

... Suskind Atonement by Ian McEwan I preferred the book for the first half, but the movie for the second half. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. It could never live up to the book, but still good. The Prestige by Christopher Priest. One of the few occasions were I ...

... Sparrow Is Dead on my wish list, so at least there's a little bit of a something-something to tide us over. And The Virgin Suicides was originally a short story - the first chapter is that short story.

I'm looking forward to The Virgin Suicides ... probably next year. Will like to see the movie then and compare. From this NY Times video interview with Eugenides from mid-May -- around minute 4:45 he says he's now writing a more "realist ...

I finished The Virgin Suicides. Jeffrey Eugenides has made his way into "favorite author" status and needs to keep publishing authors. I loved his collective narrator and the obsession these girls held for everyone in the community. After reading Middlesex as well, you can tell Jeffrey ...

I am going to start The Virgin Suicides and finish of my Made into a Movie/TV show category. It will only be my second complete category after all this time, but I'm toying with declaring August "complete categories month!" Which means that I'll potentially be aiming to finish off Young Adult ...

Finished Virgin Suicides, liked it even more than Middlesex.... though I might just have to read Middlesex again.

... often. Very entertaining read. Finished Greene's Our Man in Havana, loved it. Clever, clever, clever. Picking up The Virgin Suicides, because the girlfriend has been reading Middlesex and enjoying it... so I felt I needed some Eugenides in my life. This is in addition to Baldwin's ...

#9 and #11 - re The Virgin Suicides. The thought of teenage girls committing suicide almost makes me sick to my stomach, especially since I have a teenage daughter. There were other reasons too, but that's the biggie. It was well written and evocative of the times, just so terribly sad, ...

#9 I liked The Virgin Suicides too, though I wouldn't go so far as to say it was the most beautiful book I've ever read. Somewhat nearer that mark might come A Prayer For Owen Meany though - plus pretty much everything else by Irving. That top ten is interesting - though it does only ...

I'm so sad that The Virgin Suicides is on that list. It's a favourite of mine and probably the most beautiful book I've ever read. However, I do get the impression that many people read it expecting a more conventional mystery story and abandon it when they don't get one. The Almost Moon - I ...

... honestly not sure how it happened, but even today I still feel intensely about Lily Bart's love life. Jeffery Eugeindes The Virgin Suicides This is another one of those that make you go WHAT? They cut Middlesex but left Suicides? Wittgenstein's Mistress Not a very popular one from the ...

... Massachusetts: Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Asa, As I Knew Him by Susanna Kaysen Michigan: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York: The Last S ...

To all those who love Middlesex then read The Virgin Suicides. Just don't expect the same kind of book at all. I didn't like Suicides but I think I'm in the minority. I've still got a bookmark in the middle of John Adams and am about 1/4 the way through a re-read of Pride and Pr ...

... to think how "they" would try to turn it into "must see TV"...if you love Eugenides...please..please...please...read The Virgin Suicides....you won't regret a single moment spent...trust me ;-}

... Montgomery} Maryland - Kindred by Octavia Butler Massachusetts - Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser Michigan - Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides} Minnesota - Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik Mississippi - Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon Missour ...

... Detroit history and the exploration of gender; but found it less compelling than I'd expected. Still, I'm now eager to read The Virgin Suicides. I made Middlesex the first "degree" in my 6 Degrees of Separation mini-challenge. Book 45: Th ...

28/50 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides I'm a fan of the movie adaptation, which follows the book almost exactly, so I knew I would like the story. This was a great book, even though the movie does a little bit of a better job in making the girls empathetic. The book did a better ...

I actively disliked The Virgin Suicides from about page 25 or so but finished it. I should never have started it because that's the one year I forced myself to finish everything I started. Bad timing. I didn't finish One More Year, a series of short stories by Sana Krasikov. Depressing ...

... had left the wedding reception to take a solitary walk around urban Detroit! The Detroit aspects make me eager to read The Virgin Suicides.

#190-195 - It's good to know I don't need to rush out and get The Virgin Suicides. Part of what made Middlesex so special for me was the setting and the culture. I grew up in Northern Michigan, but spent a lot of time in Detroit (particularly during my college years in Ann Arbor). My brother ...

The Virgin Suicides is one of those things that works way better adapted - I love Sofia Coppola's movie adaptation but really can't believe the book has got any fans, I thought it was tedious and cold.

Even more than not caring for The Virgin Suicides, I absolutely hated it. Disgust and loathing. I got rid of it. But I loved Middlesex. I wonder how many authors I have that situation with - love one book, hate another? Hmm...

... the running for my alltime favorite book. It is brilliant. I hope he publishes another novel soon. I didn't care a lot for The Virgin Suicides.

I agree with LaurenSeraph, I love that the boys in The Virgin Suicides spend their whole time trying to understand the girls but never even scratch the surface. I tried reading Valis because I like a lot of Philip K. Dick's work and I've often heard it described as a work of genius, but I ...

... have contributed to the 'unputdownable' factor. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Well, once I got into it. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I became just as obsessed as the narrators. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. I don't usually read chick lit, but ...

... but Iain M. Banks and Neuromancer by William Gibson. In end up getting bored and giving up. But one day... Re The Virgin Suicides: This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, and I enjoy it each time I re-read it. A few people complain about getting to 'the point' as ...

... matter. The KiteRunner: Please I got to the last 10 pages and said, " Take that! This book is so predictable!" The Virgin Suicides: Is there a point in there somewhere? Jodi Picoult's books great beginnings, I am lured in but somewhere it becomes slow and I yawn and have to ...

I just bought The Virgin Suicides and now I am very curious to read the book. I will have to move it to the TBR pile. I will have to look at Middlesex next time I am at the book store.

Well, just to add my two cents, I love The Virgin Suicides, and have had Middlesex on my TBR for a long while. Thanks for your review!

I've never read The Virgin Suicides so I don't know how they compare. I was never tempted to read it before, but having loved Middlesex when I didn't expect to, I'm strongly tempted to read The Virgin Suicides now.

Gosh. Surprised by such a glowing review!! I found The Virgin Suicides so completely meh that I've been put off Eugenides, possibly for life...

... join you if that's OK. I've owned this book for a while and have picked it up a few times only to give up quickly. I love The Virgin Suicides, it's one of my all time favorite books, so I feel I should really give this one a good go.

... finished The Lover (boring but short) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (fast and fun read ) and now I'm reading The Virgin Suicides. I'm also going to read The Woman in White with the Group reads.

... fan Suspicion of Innocence by Barbara Parker Death Row by William Bernhardt Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides...haunting Twilight at Mac's Place by Ross Thomas Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell Silent Witness by Richard North P ...

... Vampires Don't Diet by Gerry Barlett (now I just need to find #2 in this series.) 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides A Wild Affair by Gemma Townley No Choice but Seduction by Johanna Lindsey (another Malory Novel!!) I also went to B & N to ...

... - she would now be a "spoiler" when she is, in fact, existing. What of books on death and dying? Can you not read The Virgin Suicides? or The Death of Vishnu? or Dying Young? As to your other spoiler tags: hero dies - used 7 times by 1 user (means the likelihood of it showing ...

So glad this is happening. I just finished The Virgin Suicides and many of the commenters had mentioned reading Middlesex and how good it is. I cannot wait to find out for myself!

... loved: Atonement - one of my top 5 favourite books ever Alias Grace - I became an Atwood fan based on this book The Virgin Suicides - just bizarre enough :) All the Pretty Horses - I LOVE Cormac McCarthy The English Patient - one of my top 5 favourite books ever The Graduate ...

21. (New) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

I just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. This is a sad and well written story with dashes of wit and perfect pitch childhood dialogs. My familiarity with the Grosse Pointe area made it more enjoyable....but it is a haunting book.

... I didn't know he wrote any short stories but I will try to find the book at my library. I definately want to read The Virgin Suicides but the last time I went to the library I had six books in my hand before I got that far, aggh. By the way, I find all your reviews very interesting. I ...

I finished The Virgin Suicides which I loved. A book that I tore through. Next up will be Disgrace which will be my first Coetze

7.Impact The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson Out of Focus by Margaret Buffie Looking for Alaska by John Green A Map of the Known Wor ...

Just finished Foundation, I was fairly underwhelmed. It just seemed flat to me. Now I've started The Virgin Suicides which is engrossing so far.

... to be noticed by anyone perusing this section. see Books about Books for my review. ideas: Brick Lane, The Virgin Suicides, Towelhead, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jane Eyre, Atmospheric Disturbances, Decline and Fall, The Well and the Mine, The God of Animals ...

I first read The Virgin Suicides when I was twelve years old. Having grown up in a suppressive religious environment alongside three sisters of my own, Eugenides captured the stifling essence of our existence and made it tangible-- while unrealistic to some, the Libson girls' story holds a ...

Finished The Virgin Suicides this weekend and jumped right into The Great Gatsby which I think I read in high school. I believe I hated it at the time, but I find it very entertaining now. Also, still reading Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells through DailyLit, which is coming along nicely.

... writing. I'm having the same trouble here (already, I know!). He keeps losing me in his narrative. At home, I started The Virgin Suicides. I'm expecting to breeze through this story, which I like, but isn't blowing me away as I had expected it to (yet). So far (about 1/3 in) it reminds me ...

... sci fi. Wish she'd do it more often. Edit: Also look for anything that's been made into a film - Atonement, Perfume, The Virgin Suicides, The Prestige, Mystic River. All of those, incidentally, are good or great books, with good or great movie adaptations.

6. The Virgin Suicides is a reread. It's still one of my favorite novels ever. I can sort of understand why a lot of people don't care for it, but it's just so good! 7. Death and the Penguin was pretty bizarre. I liked it.

... for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller (120 pp) 5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (542 pp) 6. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (249 pp) 7. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (228 pp) 8. Daughters of Another Path by Carol ...

... issues of prejudice, and this one would give you plenty to discuss. There's also: Perfume by Patrick Suskind The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

kasummey, Middlesex is one of my FAVORITE novels of all times. I absolutely adore it. I own Virgin Suicides but for some reason, I haven't read it yet. This week I am reading: Best African American Fiction: 2009 and Best African American Essays: 2009 I'm also going to take a look ...

... very likeable and relatable characters, despite their somewhat extraordinary lives or circumstances. I think I still prefer The Virgin Suicides over Middlesex, but it's definitely a book I would recommend. I'm now onto something very light for my book club, French by Heart: An American Fam ...

... de Paris by Victor Hugo, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. More recently: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Chocolat by Joanne Harris. Happy Reading! PS - if you keep entering books, you can use LT to generate recommendations for ...

The darkest, bleakest and most awful book I've read in a long time is The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I hated it and was scared by it - I have a 15-year old daughter and the idea of teenage girls committing suicide makes me sick.

... examples, we can use contemporary* coming-of-age novels such as Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, Jim the Boy by Tony Early, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, Never Let Me Go by Kazao Ishiguro, Bee Season by Myla Goldberg (I'm sure you'll all be able ...

I see you've already read The Virgin Suicides and have Middlesex planned for this year. I've got the opposite scenario happening :) I loved Middlesex and definitely recommend it. What did you think of Suicides?

... Hours — Michael Cunningham 18) Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho 19) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth 20) The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides 21) Black Dogs — Ian McEwan 22) American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis 23) Possession: A Romance -- A. S. Byatt ...

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides No fear to spoil anything here, five sisters five suicedes

I haven't read Middlesex yet, but due to my love for The Virgin Suicides, I will get it read eventually. I look forward to it.

... about it, but lets just say I can't recommend it to anyone. Up next is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I loved The Virgin Suicides and this comes highly recommended, so I have high hopes for it.

... richness and cheekiness of her Victorian novels. It's a very good book, but it's not the same. And with Eugenides, I read The Virgin Suicides before I read Middlesex so I got his slow paced contemplative novel out of the way (and I found it intriguing) before getting to my (preferred style) ...

... Wives The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Sweet Hereafter The Time Traveler's Wife Up at the Villa Virgin Suicides Where the Heart Is White Oleander Women of Brewster Place

... years ago knowing nothing about it (I didn't even read the blurb on the back). I still think about Cal. I later read The virgin suicides, but again, like The night watch it didn't meet my expectations. I tried watching the film of The virgin suicides recently, but found that knowing ...

... a) it was on sale; b) it was highly recommended; c) it was (is!) a 1001 book; and, d) I love Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides. What I'm Reading Next: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

... no expectations and was very happy with it. I think the author has done an admirable job at following up his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, with another equally well-written novel about a family and coming-of-age while at the same time bringing light to a topic many people know little about. ...

... if I'll actually get to 50, as I only read 18 in 2008, but I'll certainly try. Here are my completed books so far: 1. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides 2. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski 3. Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence - Paul Feig I'm currently finishing up One Flew Over ...

... by John Wagner finished 3/8 5. Belle de Jour finished 2/20 6. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides finished 8/2/2009 7. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman finished 4/30 8.

Hee, a friend of mine once stated in an interview that her favorite book was The Virgin Suicides. She got some crazy looks and didn't get called back.

... hear your wrists escaped by the skin of their teeth (if wrists can be said to have teeth???). I must admit I rather like The Virgin Suicides and I did enjoy the only Neal Stephenson book I've read - Quicksilver but I can kind of see with both of those how they might not be everyone's cup of ...

Ah. Another good thread. My worst books of 2008 were: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Virgin Suicides by Jefffrey Eugenides Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes One that I abandoned so that I wouldn't slash my ...

Not sure if this is what you're going for, but The Virgin Suicides may work.

The Virgin Suicides is narrated in first person plural, with no single narrator--there are individual boys named, but no "I". Jeffrey Eugenides' second book, Middlesex, is narrated by a transgendered boy. Already mentioned, but The Book Thief is narrated by death, and brilliantly so.

>#10: The Virgin Suicides? Really? That's funny, everyone else loved it. Just kidding. I was pretty ambivalent about it at first, especially since i saw the film first and thought "meh". It's the type of book that usually i would not like, but for some reason it did keep my interest throughout. ...

Ooh! This is fun. 2008 stinkers: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - yes, I know. Everybody else in the world loved it. I hated it. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - I felt way too old reading this book. There were about 30 good pages. The Mistress's Daughter ...

Oh, karenmarie, I loved Snow Crash, but I agree that I hated The Virgin Suicides. It was especially disappointing as I'd enjoyed Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides a lot.

... Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions by Thich Nhat Hanh for my sister. I'm really hoping I receive The Virgin Suicides, which I owned before and somehow lost and The Graveyard Book which was a library read that I just loved.

I also really like The Virgin Suicides and The Thirteenth Tale. I can't stand anything by Jodi Picoult. One clunker was Sophie Dahl's Playing with the Grown-Ups which was an early review book. Words cannot express my absolute disgust for that piece of literary crap! I wouldn't ...

#13 SqueakyChu - The Virgin Suicides was well written, I just thought the subject awful and absolutely nowhere for the book to have any good moments. It's quite possible that having a 15-year-old daughter colored my opinion too. I did love Middlesex. #15 sanja - I loved Special Topics ...

... my reading needs when I tried to get through it. I really pushed to finish it, but didn't enjoy it very much. I thought The Virgin Suicides was great!

... Big mistake. However, I did force myself to finish some major drek. The major clunkers include Snow Crash, The Virgin Suicides, Any Given Doomsday, and Pretty Little Mistakes. I also listened to The Mermaid Chair which made me foam at the mouth. I now actually have ...

6 Bookmooches went today Drums of Autumn to the Philippines The High Lord to Oklahoma The Virgin Suicides to Sacramento and to the UK Blood River I Know This Much is True The Secret History Yay for more space on the shelves, and less nagging from my NON-reader ...

Your 'fighting' is so cute, wookiebender :) I finished Middlesex and absolutely loved it. *So* much better than The Virgin Suicides - I felt it had all the heart & the poignancy that the former lacked, without loss of Eugenides' mordant wit. Loved how he interweaved the personal stories ...

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides?

... by Jhumpa Lahiri 3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 4. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 5. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 6. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 7. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 8. Gone with the Wind by Margaret ...

... a strong UP connection is Sundog by Jim Harrison ... and Eugenides, mentioned above, was from Detroit ... his Virgin Suicides was set in Grosse Pointe, Mich.

The Virgin Suicides

The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (finishing this one) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Although now I feel like I should read another Jonathan book instead of TVS. Except I've read my only other Jonathan books (The Bartimaeus ...

I absolutely despised and loathed The Virgin Suicides. I cannot say enough awful things about this book. The only good thing I could say was that the writing was good, but the subject was horrific, sickening, awful. As the mother of a 15-year old girl, it made my skin crawl. For entirely ...

... Sisters, one my absolute favourites - I really love the ones set in Lancre or Uberwald. Changing gears a bit, I finished The Virgin Suicides pretty quickly, but I was glad I finally read it... it was really intriguing. Amsterdam was also good, but hard for me to really care for the ...

... Possible Dance Operation Shylock Complicity On Love What a Carve Up! A Suitable Boy The Stone Diaries The Virgin Suicides The House of Doctor Dee

... to quote Sehktmet 'any book with a character named Remus must be good' *lol* let's hope her words are prophetic The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Light Before Dark by Christopher Rice - Really liked his first book...thought his second was so-so but here's hoping ...

Jeffrey Eugenides Both of his books are on the 1001 list, and both are fantastic. The Virgin Suicides is a swiftly-paced, understated story that works its magic and draws you in despite a plot that's almost entirely revealed up-front. Then there's Middlesex, which is just a ...

... group to join in too. Enduring Love Under the Net The Postman Always Rings Twice The Crying of Lot 49 The Virgin Suicides Wild Swans A Fine Balance These are all on the 1001 list too if you also read off of that list (I do! I'm a list addict!).

... able to go through shelf by shelf and pull books that don't make sense to keep anymore (The Alchemist, Richard Russo, The Virgin Suicides as examples)..... maybe this weekend after tennis..... wish me luck! When I originally catalogued my books (starting last fall) I only pulled a few ...

CarlaR and yareader2 - I absolutely abhorred, despised, disliked, and was totally irritated by The Virgin Suicides. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I hate it. Good writing, horrible story. Blech. But, to each her own! tjsjohanna - we'd love to hear what you've been reading.

... the Viking woman really has me interested. I need to put that on my list. Carla R - I have to let you know that I loved The Virgin Suicides. I never saw the movie on that. I believe some people do not like his writing style and that overcomes the story. Have you tried any of his short ...

... to Die by Paulo Coelho The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Blaze by Stephen King The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy The classics that I chose to ...

Moving on from The Virgin Suicides to The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

I finished The Virgin Suicides and I am about to start The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

"You're not even old enough to know how bad life can get." The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides "Do we seem as crazy as everyone thinks?"

I continue listening to Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and I am reading The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.

"She just gave in for a while, he said." The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides "Which one of you is driving?"

"Hopefully, we watched." The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides "And what might those intentions be?"

53 - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 54 - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

... and "We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand new root-clippers." The virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

I left Texas for 1970s suburbia and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.

... finished The Story of Forgetting which I liked very much for its poignancy, information, and creativity! I just started The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.

... finish this year. 1. Baghdad Without Maps by Tony Horwitz 2. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 3. Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 4. God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields by Peter Irons 5. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions ...

Hi Jody: Here's my review of it, written earlier this year. ************* I just finished The Virgin Suicides. I have rarely been happier to finish a book. Starting about page 50 or so I couldn’t wait to be finished with this book. Normally, if I don’t like a book, I put it down. How ...

I liked The Virgin Suicides even before I read it, there was an excerpt in a magazine from the party they had and then the first suicide. I felt that there was an honesty to the story, I liked the boys telling it and I liked all five Lisbon girls (although not so much Cecelia as the others). ...

# 39 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides I've had such a run of funny, upbeat books, so maybe this one seems like much more of a downer in comparison. Eugenides is a very good writer, and I did like the book, but not as much as I liked Middlesex. As a first novel, The Virgin Suicide ...

I've been reading a lot of non-1001 the past couple weeks, but I started The Virgin Suicides today, and Mansfield Park will be next. My experience with Jane Austen is a little lopsided - I've read the big three - Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility more times than ...

I polished off The Uncommon Reader this afternoon, and it was every bit as good as everyone says. Next up: The Virgin Suicides and Mansfield Park. I think.

The Virgin Suicides was in my TBR pile. Perhaps I will reconsider.

Thanks for the tip, Nickelini, and excellent point, varielle. Karenmarie, I saw the movie of The Virgin Suicides, and didn't even want to read the book.

I had the same issue, varielle, with The Virgin Suicides. It was very well written and the characters were if not superbly drawn, at least well drawn, but the whole concept was nasty, repugnant, and disgustingly unpleasant, to quote you so aptly. I might move the book to my "don't own them, ...

... 5 lines in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I should have read for bookclub). I've read several real stinkers, including The Virgin Suicides, Snow Crash, and Shades of Glory. This confirms that my usual reading style of putting a book down if I don't like it is a good instinct. I ...

... fluff appeals. ************* Interesting books this month, you guys, although I have to say that I absolutely despised The Virgin Suicides - see my review if you wish - but loved Labyrinth, Silk, Water for Elephants, and especially Cotillion because I absolutely adore almost all of ...

... of a geisha - Arthur Golden 4. Enduring love - Ian McEwan 5. Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis de Bernieres 6. The virgin suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides 7. The secret history - Donna Tartt 8. Discovery of heaven - Harry Mulisch 9. Foe - J.M. Coetzee 10. Love in time of ...

... by Alexandra Robbins Loyal In Love, by Jean Plaidy The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffery Eugenides Cotillion, by Georgette Heyer Pathetic, I know. But in my defense, the Faber was roughly 850 pages... and I read ...

I just finished The Virgin Suicides. I really liked it. It's a quick and easy read, obviously a little depressing. But well worth it.

#43 Scratch - I hated Virgin Suicides and am sorry I read it. I guess it qualifies as offensive. The only reason I actually finished it was because I had it in the 888 challenge and have promised myself to finish everything I start this year.

1970's in a suburban area in Michigan: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.

... accurate. And I have a really low tolerance for bad male attempts to write about women! (For instance, I dismiss Virgin Suicides b/c I just can't stomach men writing about women who kill themselves.)

... book for yourself! You're letting something so minor dictate what you're going to do with your pleasure time. Heck, take The Virgin Suicides - the title is a spoiler! But that's not the point of the book - the point is how Jeffrey Eugenides gets us there - and nothing in short ...

... lord, I've read a book on this thread. Well I've read several on the thread, just missed a chance to post. Who's read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides?

... White. I thought it was interesting that Lizzie Hutton opened the article with Sylvia Plath and bringing in The Virgin Suicides and Thelma & Louise amongst others. I have her daughter's Susan Chitty's edited diaries of Antonia but haven't read them yet. (It's VERY ...

... think her Dad was (just) an alcoholic, but that her mother was seriously mentally ill. I wrote about this in my review of The Virgin Suicides - that the girls dropping out of school simply wouldn't be allowed now. And regarding the Walls children that now, in 2008, fewer children would be ...

... it was an Oprah pick! HA I have found this book loved by so many people from different backgrounds and reading styles. The Virgin Suicides was wonderful too and if you are careful you will see parts of it written into Middlesex like Suicides was a way of him developing his thoughts for Middl ...

>35 etc. I'm curious about Middlesex (have been for a while); must get my hands on a copy. Has anyone read The Virgin Suicides? I saw the movie (didn't like it), but haven't read the book. Was the book better than the movie? (Guess I'm straying from the topic slightly, sorry!)

... Hours — Michael Cunningham 18) Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho 19) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth 20) The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides 21) Black Dogs — Ian McEwan 22) American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis 23) Possession: A Romance -- A. S. Byatt ...

... 1001 books you must read before you die 1. Birdsong FINISHED 2. Disgrace FINISHED 3. The black dahlia FINISHED 4. The virgin suicides 5. Kafka on the shore 6. Cloud Atlas 7. American psycho 8. Never let me go

Hey alcottacre - They do end happily ever after, don't they? I should have read one after finishing The Virgin Suicides. It was depressing. I think just for the heck of it that I'll classify all my romances just to see how many I have. I started with Georgette Heyer and Barbara C ...

Thanks elamcc, I'm slightly ahead of schedule :) Really enjoyed Virgin Suicides but think I missed a lot of American pop culture references. And I thought On Chesil Beach was just fantastic. Simple and short, but at the end I felt like I'd read a book three times as long. Sure there will ...

... it was a good read. There isn't usually so much high level enthusiasm by as many people. Remembering how depressing The Virgin Suicides was, I really appreciated how good Water for Elephants made me feel. And to The Kite Runner. I felt depressed when all those horrible things ...

... Judas The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity Water for Elephants I also read and actively disliked The Virgin Suicides. I finished it because I decided that anything I started I'd finish this year. I loved Middlesex but was so depressed by Virgin Suicides. Mark Twain ...

>49 karenmarie - Yeah, I've read both Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides, and liked them both. Middlesex was longer ago, though, so I haven't retained as clear of an impression of why I liked it. I do remember being a little surprised (disappointed?), since I thought it was all going to be "a ...

... I followed the link to LT, and here I am! #17 - fyrefly98 - have you read Middlesex? I liked it much better than The Virgin Suicides.

... them terribly interesting. I'd forgotten how much I love Mark Twain's language and humor. I surely did need humor after The Virgin Suicides. This is a long book too - almost 500 pages, and I'm about 125 in. Meaty. What are you reading now?

>16 I really liked The Virgin Suicides, but was extremely frustrated by the ambiguousness of it all - although I think that's part of why I liked it. Interesting book. Last week I finished: The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Schuyler ...

I'm going to start Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain today. Just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides this morning. Need to get the taste of that one out of my mouth. Mark Twain is usually a good mood raiser for me.

Finished Reading Judas and The Virgin Suicides, both short reads although very different. Next is Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Need a pick me up after The Virgin Suicides.

Hey ivyd - I just finished The Virgin Suicides. I have rarely been happier to finish a book. Starting about page 50 or so I couldn’t wait to be finished with this book. Normally, if I don’t like a book, I put it down. However, in the spirit of the 888 challenge and my own personal rule ...

I'll be watching for your reaction to The Virgin Suicides. I read Middlesex a couple of weeks ago, and was thinking about adding The Virgin Suicides to my list.

Reading Judas was a fantastic read. I've started The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Strange.

... and Karen L King. A very good read. Interesting comparisons to the 4 gospels of the New Testament. I've started The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Pretty strange, so far.

... week effort, but worth it. To keep me going I also finished Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul and I'm just about done with The Virgin Suicides. I was interested by M#48, #50 about The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway. I read and enjoyed The Hours, though I've not seen the movie. And I have Mrs. Da ...

8, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

... bryson 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Authors new to me 1) the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay by michael chabon 2) the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides 3) the loved ones by evelyn waugh 4) the book of lost things by john connelly 5) the winter queen by boris akunin 6) the ...

Oh, man, i know I've read that one. Shot in the dark: Virgin Suicides?

The Virgin Suicides?

253 by Geoff Ryman Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Disappointment of the month was: Baudolino by Umberto Eco

... so loud had she not been ignored earlier in the story?) Since it's so short, you should give it another go. Much like The Virgin Suicides knowing the ending makes the first half of the story more interesting. Sorry about the rant, it’s just one of my favorite short stories.

... and stop existing. 5/5 2. Middlesex was even better. I have had that book on my wishlist for years, ever since I read The Virgin Suicides. I am kicking myself for not getting it sooner. I tore through it in a couple days, and am sad that the journey is over. Euginides has solidified ...

98. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (249p). In some ways, a very similar novel to the non-fiction work of Jon Krakauer; the outcome is expressed from the very beginning, and the analysis suggests that we shall never know the reasoning.

The best adaptation I have seen from a book is Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Not only was it very close to the story but there was a very strange quality to the book which the film captured perfectly.

I'm about a quarter of the way into The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I loved Middlesex but I'm finding this one very different.

... by Dario Fo Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford War and Peace by Tolstoy Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Time's Arrow ...

5,6,7 - The Virgin Suicides is not second person narration. I don't think in even some more obscure meaning of the term. The reader is not the protagonist, which I believe is a requisite of second-person narration. However, the one example I do know of is the beginning of Italo Calvino's If ...

... definition, see here I haven't read The virgin suicides, so I'm afraid I don't have a clue whether it's really written as a second-person narrative or not.

... of other pronouns, That's what I understand is second person narration. I just checked Amazon's search pages of The Virgin Suicides. Every page I saw was in third person. I don't know about the rest of the book, though. Was part of it in second person?

Is The Virgin Suicides really in second person? I thought 2nd person perspective meant that the narrator refers to the reader as if they were a character in the story, using the word "you" instead of other pronouns, like in Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.

... a home-visiting doctor in France. It was amazing to read a book written in 2nd person narration. That's funny. I read The Virgin Suicides and the second person narration never even struck me. Perhaps that was because of the different narrative styles of the two books. The Case of Dr. Sachs ...

25. The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides 26. Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

... but I think I'll end up starting fresh. 1. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 2. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 4. Sula by Toni Morrison 5. Wicked by Gregory Maguire 6. America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction ...

... especially in the narration. I've been listening to The Virgin Suicides by Air and it's made me terribly want to reread The Virgin Suicides (which is a little weird seeing as I listen to it fairly often and it hasn't inspired this urge before). Unfortunately, that book resides back in Denver ...

... Chandler. I also picked up Tender is the Night, Tristram Shandy, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Virgin Suicides, Robinson Crusoe, and Hard Times at the library today. I'm planning/hoping to get through all of them within the month, since they're due Nov 23rd.

... unable to put it down, crying at the end... and the movie was just horrendous. One of the really good adaptations: The Virgin Suicides. I think the film version really captured the feeling of the book.

CR (current reading): The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides JF (just finished): Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson LF2 (looking forward to): Specials by Scott Westerfeld

... I will definitely say Eugenides is a fantastic storyteller. I just didn't like this particular story (maybe I should try Virgin Suicides. =)

... finished Treasure Island, where about ten books have been read inbetween beginning and ending it, and have now moved onto The Virgin Suicides

... You're right, it's so much more than life as a hermaphrodite. I am looking forward to another of his books! I didn't like Virgin Suicides nearly as much, though.

"We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers" from The Virgin Suicides

In order of reading: Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides Lost and Found, by Carolyn Parkhurst Journey's End, by R. C. Sherriff Season of Mists, by Neil Gaiman

... quiet time when I know I'll get down several pages in one sitting. I also just started, and am almost finished with, The Virgin Suicides by Eugenides. It's really wonderful, emotionally perilous for all its detachment, and simple (without being sparse) in its prose.

I found that in The Virgin Suicides, I was more compelled to put the book down and never finish it, though I made myself push through it. I found it quite boring, where as the movie had a little more edge to it. The Little Prince which I saw in a cartoon version by... oh, I forget the movie ...

63. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides emaestra in What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - August 2007 (Aug 14, 2007, 10:17pm)

I got Virgin Suicides - and I haven't even seen the movie. I got a hardback copy of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I loved this book, lent it to a friend, and never saw it again. Best of all, they were $2 each.

... Stephen Frey 21 - Earthly Joys: A Novel Philippa Gregory 22 - An American Story Debra J. Dickerson 23 - Virgin Earth: A Novel Philippa Gregory 24 - Company Man Joseph Finder 25 - The Secret Hour Luanne Rice 26 - The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca T ...

... the wholly fictional character of Hannah in Philippa Gregory's The Queen's Fool than was the case with Elizabeth in The Virgin Lover or Buckingham in Earthly Joys. And if I know even less about a period, I'm likely willing to accept even more stretches of the imagination. I do ...

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides The Dead Zone by Stephen King Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming Gahan Wilson's Graveside Manner

... not overly sentimental or emotional, I didn't cry, but the story was so fascinating that I could not put it down. I loved Virgin Suicides too, so I guess I'm just a big Eugenides fan. Regardless, I definitely think Middlesex is worth it. There's a lot of political talk...in terms of how it ...

... McCarthy 2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix--needed a re-read before the movie came out 3. just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Here are the front-runners of my TBR pile; this list might actually keep me honest and get me to read these before buying ...

... growing! So far this year I've read: 1. The Memory of Tides: Angelo Loukakis 2. Saturday: Ian McEwan 3. The Virgin Suicides: Jeffrey Eugenides 4. When Madeline Was Young: Jane Hamilton 5. The Thirteenth Tale: Diane Setterfield 6. The Tenderness of Wolves: ...

I just finished The Virgin Suicides, which I found to be a powerful work. I'm moving on to A Very Thin Line, by Theodore Draper, which has been on my to-read list for a couple years now.

The Virgin Suicides As I Lay Dying Last Orders about four men travelling to scatter their friend/father's ashes. Pilgrim about a man who couldn't die. The Ox-Bow Incident about a lynching.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides The Crab with the Golden Claws by Herge The golden scorpion by Sax Rohmer One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Suess as well as the "story" of 9/11 ... The Pet Goat - contained in Reading Mastery II: Story ...

killeymoon - The Virgin Suicides is so good! I just devoured Dearly Devoted Dexter in one day. I am loving the series and can't wait for the third book to come out this summer or fall. I haven't seen the show because I don't have Showtime, but I'm eager to see that as well. I liked Michael C ...

... I really enjoyed the family history part. Every time I picked it up I was rivetted. I may even think about reading The Virgin Suicides which I would never have considered before. I must be on a "family history fiction" kick, because I followed it up with The Thirteenth Tale and I ...

1. Geisha (nonfiction) - Liza Dalby 2. A Pale View of Hills (fiction) - Kazuo Ishiguro 3. The Virgin Suicides (fiction) - Jeffrey Eugenides 4. Blankets (graphic novel) - Craig Thompson 5. La Perdida (graphic novel) - Jessica Abel

... favorite Dickens books so I was quite happy when the 2006 miniseries turned out to be wonderful. Out of Africa and The Virgin Suicides were both movies that inspired me to read the equally inspiring books.

I totally agree with your comments on The Historian and The Virgin Suicides. Actually I thought you were too kind about Elizabeth Kostova' effort.

... present. It turned out to be about how to meditate. I read it, but did not get all that much out of it. Rating--2 4. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides - Finally! A book I thought was extremely good. Well-written. A fascinating story of a troubled family - especially their five ...

Since I read 60+ books last year, the first year I kept track, I should be good for at least 50 this year. Questions... Is it okay if I don't post reviews with every book? I might...but, you know...obligations... :-) Is it okay if my books are not all labeled 50 book challenge since many ...

... see that he didn't touch on the hermaphroditism much. Plus, the stuff about his grandparents just creeped me out. I loved The Virgin Suicides, though, and I'm always impressed when an author pulls off a complicated point of view, like the collective narrator in this book, and the second person ...

Definitely The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I liked the way the author showed the strange family situation of the girls through the eyes of neighborhood boys. I also liked the choice of words the author used to tell his story. It's a very precise and well-written novel.

... the story of its main character. By the time I got to Cal's story, I was worn out! but I found that the way it (The Virgin Suicides) was written was just too distancing. I thought that the distancing was effective for that particular story. It didn't give too many clues as ...

I must be the only person who didn't like The Virgin Suicides. I read it because it was highly recommended, but I found that the way it was written was just too distancing. I just didn't care that much about any of the characters.

squeakychu: I liked The Virgin Suicides very much and was pleased that the ending left questions unanswered. I blamed the parents.

I finished The Virgin Suicides last night. I thoroughly enjoyed that book and was impressed with how skillfullly Eugenides crafted his sentences to tell the story of the five sisters. I'm glad I decided to give another try to this author. The last line was so touching that I had to write it ...

Since last week, I finished The Virgin Suicides (really liked it) and Specials (thought it was okay, but my least-favorite of the trilogy). This past week, I tore through the rest of Mediator series by Meg Cabot (Reunion, Darkest Hour, Haunted, and Twilight), which were wonderfully ...

... of The Virgin Suicides. I read both and preferred Middlesex, which I found entrancing. I got to the end of The Virgin Suicides and still couldn't figure out the point of the girls' suicide.

... by all the quirky characters? I forgive Eugenides for his long, drawn-out Middlesex with the fun and breeziness of The Virgin Suicides. Well, back to my book...

I'm starting a new international bookray for The Virgin Suicides. Please PM me via BookCrossing to join. It'll be ready to travel in a few weeks. Hope I can get some LTers interested in joining this bookray. I didn't like Middlesex all that much, but I just started The Virgin Suicides and ...

... fluffy read during the commercials and overlong acceptance speeches of the Golden Globes. I'm currently listening to The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and just started reading Specials by Scott Westerfeld.

... Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Koren Zailckas 5. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles 6. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides 7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 8. Chasing Cezanne, Peter Mayle 9. A Good Year, Peter Mayle

... The People's Act of Love was on my favorite books of the year for 2005, just a terrific novel, and I've always loved The Virgin Suicides too, and recommended it many times.

... g Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon Gaiman's American Gods Auster's Leviathan and Moon Palace Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides And then there are The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird. These I've ...

Hi kperfetto I agree with you to an extent - but I dont a book like The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides or Cocaine nights would make a standard academic list I think its a fascinating list and the few books I have read have been right up my alley :) - and I'm really not into ...

... the book, and after the watching the first 30 minutes of the movie, I don't think I want to. I just finished reading The Virgin Suicides, I had already seen the movie. I have to admit I don't totally like either. I think it has to do with the subject matter. It's just to dark for me. I ...

I just started Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I wasn't crazy about The Virgin Suicides, but this one was recommended to me by a friend. I like it so far, though I've only read a couple of chapters.

... Goodman Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami White Ole ...